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Photorejuvenation: Concepts, Practice, Perspectives

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Photorejuvenation is an all-purpose term that can be appealing to patients looking for finest results with negligible downtime, enticed by the alleged healing potential of lasers and high energy light technologies.

In the real world, photorejuvenation can be attained when targeting specific tissue chromophores, as hemoglobins in facial redness, poikiloderma and telangiectasia with vascular lasers and IPLs, melanin in mottled dyspigmentation and age spots with pigment specific light sources, and even tissue water when using near IR high energy wavelenghts, we can observe a textural improvement as a side (enticing) effect of the light-tissue interaction and a product of the healing process.

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Dal Canton, M. (2020). Photorejuvenation: Concepts, Practice, Perspectives. In: Fimiani, M., Rubegni, P., Cinotti, E. (eds) Technology in Practical Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45351-0_35

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